GED2HTML - a review

My mainpoints of concern are:

1. The link-structure is based on the INDI-ID's in the GEDCOM-file. Coupled to the alphabetical grouping in sub-indices this does lock the web-structure. An addition to the database might cause a rearrangement of all the references.
2. I prefer one person on each web-page. This is possible in GED2HTML, but it is designed for a several persons on each page, resulting in a complicated - and unstable - html-reference.
3. It is a closed structure - it is not possible to automatically link to pages outside the given GED2HTML-structure. It can offcourse be done manually after the automatic generation, but it would be a tedious job - and should be repeated after reruns of a modified GEDCOM-file.

The single-file versions ( 7 and 9 ) have been produced with the standard-settings of GED2HTML, whereas the single-person versions ( 7 and 9 ) have been produced with:

• 1 individual per file (as I prefer)
• 4 files per directory (resulting in to and three directories)
• 3 max. index width (resulting in three indices)
• 2 pedigree depth (default)

As you can see from the Index of Persons, Louise Marie Friis is placed as number 5 in the version with 9 persons. This changes the references for the rest of the list. E.g. Cathrine Elisabeth Hauge is moved from the reference ../d0002/g0000005.htm#I7 to ../d0002/g0000006.htm#I7.

This is rather confusing - especially if someone will reference a specific web-page. A robot, indexing the site, will return erronoeus information after such a restructuring operation.

I will also mention two minor points:

1. A proper genealogy-database have an extensive list of references. As far as I can see, this will result in a huge SOURCES.HTM in GED2HTML.
2. PC-users should be aware of the character set. GED2HTML (and WWW) assumes the Latin-1 character set, so you should translate your GEDCOM-file if you are using an IBM-charset (allthough the GEDCOM have a CHAR-descriptor in the header). I have done that for the 9-person case, but not for the 7-person case.

                                                _Jørgen Jensen FRIIS ______
                        _Jacob Jensen FRIIS ___|
                       |                       |_Bodil Kjestine FRIIS _____
 _Jørgen Jensen FRIIS _|
|                      |                        _Mads Jensen HAUGE ________
|                      |_Kjestine Marie HAUGE _|
|                                              |_Cathrine Elisabeth HAUGE _
|
|--Louise Marie FRIIS 
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|_Inger Sophie KROGH __|
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